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Bruce Borders is a Republican member of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing District 45. Borders is running for re-election in the primary on May 8, 2018. The general election will take place on November 6, 2018.
Borders' professional experience includes owning Borders Insurance and Financial Services and working as an Elvis impersonator.
Former Vice Chair, Local Government Committee, Indiana House of Representatives
Vice Chair, Insurance
Member, Local Government
Member, Veterans Affairs and Public Safety
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1. Abortions should always be illegal.
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2. Abortions should always be legally available.
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3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
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4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
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5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
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6. Eliminate public funding for abortions and public funding of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
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7. Other or expanded principles
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1. Education (Higher)
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2. Education (K-12)
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3. Environment
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4. Health care
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5. Law enforcement
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6. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
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7. Welfare
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8. Other or expanded categories
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1. Alcohol taxes
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2. Capital gains taxes
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3. Cigarette taxes
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4. Corporate taxes
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5. Gasoline taxes
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6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
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7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
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8. Inheritance taxes
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9. Property taxes
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10. Sales taxes
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11. Vehicle taxes
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12. Other or expanded categories
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13. Should Internet sales be taxed?
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14. Do you support gambling on docked riverboats in Indiana?
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15. Other or expanded principles
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1. Do you support the current limit on terms for Indiana governors?
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2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Indiana state senators and representatives?
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1. Individual
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2. PAC
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3. Corporate
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4. Political Parties
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5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
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6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
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7. Do you support partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns?
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8. Do you support voting on-line?
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9. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying, and ensuring accuracy of votes?
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10. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Indiana are closed?
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11. Should the General Assembly be exempt from the state's open record law?
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12. Should Indiana adopt Daylight Savings Time?
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13. Should Indiana recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
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14. Should Indiana restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
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15. Other or expanded principles
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1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
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2. Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
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3. Support the use of the death penalty in Indiana.
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4. Impose a moratorium on state executions.
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5. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
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6. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
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7. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
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8. Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
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9. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
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10. Support the lower .08 blood-alcohol-content limit defining drunk driving.
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11. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
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12. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes.
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13. Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.
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14. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
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15. Increase state funding for additional security of critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks.
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16. Other or expanded principles
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1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
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2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any participating school (public, private, religious).
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3. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
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4. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
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5. Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
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6. Support posting the Ten Commandments in public schools.
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7. Endorse teacher-led voluntary prayer in public schools.
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8. Support the administering of high school exit exams in public schools.
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9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
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10. Increase state funding to expand Head Start programs.
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11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
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12. Support age-appropriate sexual education programs that teach about abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
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13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
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14. Other or expanded principles
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1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
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2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector to encourage investment and economic expansion.
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3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
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4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for their employees.
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5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children of low-income working families.
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6. Include sexual orientation in Indiana's anti-discrimination laws.
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7. Other or expanded principles
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1. College and university admissions
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2. Public employment
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3. State contracting
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4. Other or expanded principles
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1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
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2. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
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3. Restructure the electric utility industry to allow consumers to choose their power company.
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4. Fund local health agencies to locate poor septic systems and to inform the community of deficiencies.
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5. Do you support state funding for open space preservation?
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6. Should state environmental regulations be stricter than federal law?
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7. Other or expanded principles
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1. Ban the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
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2. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
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3. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
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4. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
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5. Support citizens' right to carry concealed guns.
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6. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
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7. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
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8. Require a license for gun possession.
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9. Other or expanded principles
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1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state funded care where necessary.
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2. Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
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3. Support the limit on the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
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4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
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5. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied by their HMO.
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6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
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7. Legalize physician-assisted suicide in Indiana.
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8. Increase state funding for training health workers to recognize and respond to the release of biological agents.
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9. Use Indiana's portion of the national tobacco settlement only for anti-smoking and health programs.
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10. Other or expanded principles
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1. Support current time limits on welfare benefits.
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2. Increase employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
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3. Provide tax incentives to businesses that hire welfare recipients.
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4. Provide child care for welfare recipients who work.
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5. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
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6. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
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7. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
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8. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to expand state services to include the working poor.
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9. Other or expanded principles
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In a total of seventy-five (75) words or less, please explain what your two main legislative priorities will be if elected. Please explain how you would obtain any additional government funding needed to implement these priorities.
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Type: concurrent resolution Chamber: lower
Type: concurrent resolution Chamber: lower
Type: resolution Chamber: lower
